In Mechcommander Gold you play as a commander of a small squad of mechwarriors. Set immediately after the liberation of Port Arthur, you embark on a campaign to liberate the desolate planet Cermak in the Periphery, taken by a renegade Smoke Jaguar, Star Colonel Marcus Kotare.

Your mechwarriors gain experience and increase in skill and your arsenal of weapons and mechs grows each mission as you defeat stronger and stronger foes and salvage their mechs and equipment. Mechcommander Gold contains both the expansion campaign and the original Mechcommander campaign as well as three new mechs for each side and several new vehicles.

Depending on what you’re going to be doing with the game there are few additional posts on this site you may want to check out:

Running Mechcommander on Windows 7 – Mechcommander Gold has a few issues running on newer operating systems. For steps to get the game running on 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 see this post.

Mechcommander Mission Extender – The vanilla mission editor that comes with the game lacks a few key features that included in the Mission Editor Extender. You can download and read about the mission extender in this post.

If you’ve followed the above steps and are still having issues with the Mechcommander Gold freeware download, please post in the comments below. To increase your chances of a solution being found include as much detail as possible (which version of the game you’re running, what operating system you have, what video card you have and steps to reproduce the issue). Screenshots are also very useful!